vim_racer
Joined 2 years ago
Joined 2 years ago
The donate feature has a goal now to replace dynamo db with a sql db because it will make development and maintenance easier.
I'm actually curious who would win that race. Because you're right; mouse users have a huge advantage right now, but no one just clicks on code haha!
I'm actually not 100% sure if I can achieve that with dynamo db and my current data structure though. It has a great free tier, but the query language and limitations are very foreign to me.
If I wanted to sort by timeTaken, I had to set it to be one of the two keys. This also has the unfortunate consequence of blocking duplicate times.
It might just be my implementation that is strange, or the dynamo is significantly less featureful than an SQL server.
I think I'm working off a white list, so I should just be able to add that to it.
It's going to be a challenge to protect the leaderboard against fake scores. There weren't a whole lot of them before, but it's starting to increase as the site grows.
I'm conflicted about keypress count because I really want the focus to be about speed. VimGolf does a great job of covering those types of puzzles/scenarios. The differentiator here is speed. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do some sort of data analysis on key strokes. An interesting finding might be that www is faster than f<a character>.
One of my hypothesis was that searching with 'f' and 'F' is not as efficient as simply navigating with more commong motions like w, e, h, j etc. I've already been proved wrong, Although, I should phrase it like "many top performers use 'f' and 'F'." Which would suggest that they might be fast, or using them isn't too much of a detriment
It's just a shallowish vim, so there's mostly only key bindings. I'd like to support more in the future though.
The library seems great at the time, but I might need to look into alternatives in the future.